The Portland daily press., 1887-05-10
SUBURBAN NEWS.
BowERy BEACH.

BowERy BEACH.
The lighthouse steam tender Myrtle hove
too off the Cape Friday and landed some ar
ticles of itment and supply for the light
houses, among which were eighteen panes
of French plate glass for lantern storm
panes
Mr.. Wing, the contractor and builder of
the Cape Elizabeth life-saving station, took
the midnight train for Oldtown Saturday for
the purpose of perfecting tender, and pro-
curing the requisite sureties accompanying
the same, which he will make for another
station soon to be constructed at Jerry's
Point at the entrance of Portsmouth harbor..
A much larger and more expensive structure
is called for at the latter place than the one
building at the Cape. 1t will take the best
part of another week to.complete the founda-
ton of the Cape life-saving house. This
foundation wall is one of the most solid and
faithfully constructed ever put under any
building public or private, in this town. and
the work reflects great credit ON Mr.. Wing
and his skillful head mason, Mr.. Newcombe.
A novel runaway occurred here Saturday.
A horse with an old-fashioned harrow at
field on the west side of the Cape, going at a
frightful pace with his singular carriage.
much of the time clinging by its teeth to the
flying steed's back. Nor did he halt for
fences, gates or other distinctions, until he
s'et up in clump Oh trees at the Two
Lights, where the keeper secured him and
restored him to his owner, Mr.. Dyer The
horse though badly scared and terribly
frightened, was not seriously hurt; but the
harrow will require a new frame and full SET
0f teeth IN naEa If n carxiaaahla
The yacht Maggie, with party of Port
land sportsmen on board, bound for Saco
Bay on a coot and old-squaw shooting expe-
dition, touched at the Cape Sunday for boats,
anchors, decoys, etc.
Cunners and cod have struck the shores.
and the men building the life-saying station
occupy their spare time angling for fish for
their mess.
The Rev. Ruel Kimball, recently appointed
to the Bowery Beach pastorate, preached his
salutat0ry sermon yesterday, Sunday.
The work of painting the towers and
dwellings Of the Cape light station is fin-
ished and the buildings in their new dress of
drab, brown and white, present a finer APP
pearance than ever before. NJ.
sAccARAPPA.
A valuable team horse belonging to Mr. A.
j.. Plummer fell upon the wagon shaft Sat
urday and received a bad cut in tho hip. DIR
Mcclellan put in a number of stitches and
the animal will be fit for service again soon.
The graduating exercises of the Westbrook
High School will be held at Warren church,
Cumberland Mills, June 23d.
The closing entertainment of the Univer-
salist church fair was given Saturday even
ing by the Chaplin Social Union," in the
popular drama entitled Nevada" or the
Lost Mine. The hall was density packed. A
number of people we're obliged to go away
for lack of standing Groom even. The re-
ceipts were much larger than the manage
ment were anticipating.
A correspondent in New York addressed
letter to the Haskell Silk Company at "Rac-
casappa." 1t wasl forwarded through the
mails to its destination without delay.
The Grammar and Primary schools will
observe today in an appropriate manner
"Arbor day.
At Cumberland Mills, John E. Warren,
Esq, has ordered "a lot of beautiful trees
from abroad, which will be planted by the
scholars in that part of the town today.
Other pastimes conducive to the health and
happiness of the young people will be en-
gagged in to make the day memorable in years
to come.
The paper mills company have just re-
ceived 1880 tons of coal for summer use.
Sixteen car loads of beach gravel for con-
crete and roofing purposes have been brought
to this station over the Portland and Ogdens-
burg road.
Fifteen car loads of large pine logs that
came over the Portland and Rochester from
Alfred are now at this station en- route for
Portland, to be used by the Star Match Com
pany.
The receipts for freight at the Union Sta
ton for the month of April amounted TO
5000. For the sale of passenger tickets
5000. There were HOO tickets sold during
the month at the station, for passengers be-
tween Cumberland Mills and Portland.
Piles are being driven for the new railroad
Brown street.
Messrs. S. d. Warren g. Co.'s new building
tosaccommodate there increased business in
paper manufacture is in process of construc-
lion. III Is o. by l62 feet, mostly two stories.
-Four hundred and fifty thousand bricks will
pc used in the structure. One hundred and
fifty men are now employed; brick LAYERS
and carpenters. The building will be ready
for occupancy about the first of September.
MT. Marriott Lamb, well known and
much respected citizen of this village, is suf-
fering from serious illness. K.
CUMBERLAND MILLS.
AT the Warren church, Rev. E. NJ. Cous-
ms has been appointed pastor for another
year. William E. Aver is the organists, and
J.W. Conant, Aenry Foster, Miss Edith
Lane and Miss Louise Brown, the choir.
At the Main street Methodist Episcopal
chnrch Rev. M. C. Pendexter has been ap-
pointed pastor. Jennie L. Anderson, organ
list and j. W. Conant, Edward Laffatey, Lou
Use Hezeltine and Mrs. Fred Wentworth,
choir
Helen M. Foster, the elocutionist read
Saturday before the school of selocution and
expression at Portland.
Mrs. William Lamb is very sick at her
house on the Portland road and Mr. Merritt